Longtime Emporia State official to be remembered at service

February 28, 2013

The Emporia State University community will join family and friends of James Harter to honor his life on Friday, March 1. Harter, former vice-president of international education at the university, died Feb. 20. He was 70.

A celebration of life will be at 1 p.m. Friday in Albert Taylor Hall in Plumb Hall on the Emporia State campus. A gathering of family and friends will follow in the KSTC Ballroom of the Memorial Union.

Harter spent 40 years working at Emporia State University and built the international student program. He retired in June 2011. During ceremonies on Feb. 15, Emporia State’s Office of International Education was dedicated to Harter and his wife and renamed the James F. and Dorine D. Harter Office of International Education.